Monday, April 18, 2005

"First Fan"...but that's about it

Not to dwell too much on politics, but the first two notes by Al Kamen on George W. Bush's knowledge of sports vs. current events are pretty telling. In the first note, Tony Tavarez (the president of the Nats) calls Bush's baseball knowledge "astounding". Bush also seems to know a lot about high school football. In the second note, Bush admits not having heard about the new (White House-approved) rule requiring passports to return from Mexico or Canada until it was reported in the papers.

So there you have it. The President of the United States apparently spends more time watching baseball and less time working than even me. Except, you know, the fate of the world doesn't rest on me doing my job.

(It's 8am here in Los Angeles. The Sox are about to start a baseball game. Weird.)

I missed it too! Crappy mid-day games. So what's the prognosis on Schilling? Should we be worried? That was a lot of pitches for a mediocre effort if you ask me - but then again, no one really asked me...

Well I guess the only thing that concerns me is that Francona left him out there a bit too long. I probably shouldn’t criticize the only manager to win a WS for the Sox in the zillion years, but his second start of the season and he threw 117 pitches. I know he wanted to leave him in long enough to qualify for a win, but still.

On the bright side, he did strike out 10.

The game not says Toronto’s manager was thrown out for arguing a HR call in the bottom of the 6th – that was Manny’s inside the park.

Another interesting thing to look at is that Willis's two complete games were 97 and 114 pitches respectively! Beckett's complete game was 110 or something like that (I thought he had 2, but yahoo only shows one complete game).

Man, doesn't Florida have that guy Mota too?! Talk about saving his arm!